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Beware the leveraged ETF

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
Australian exchange traded funds investors should learn from their US counterparts who have lost their fortunes trading leveraged ETFs - products that could one day hit Australian shores. Michael Krause, president of ETF research house AltaVista Research ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... seen all this before? Yes, we have. For most of 2008, the Australian dollar threatened to trade at parity with its US counterpart. Most of us were planning overseas holidays come Christmas 2008 and/or wringing our hands over what imported item our more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Australian shares are set for a flat opening with resource stocks to benefit from stronger commodity prices but financial stocks likely to fall after their US counterparts slumped on Friday. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Ultra high net worth investors in Australia are starting to wade back into the Australian Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) market, according to Merrill Lynch. Chris Selby, head of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management in Australia, has ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
The Australian share market outperformed its US counterparts during morning trade, losing just 0.4 per cent as financial stocks gave up gains from last week's market rally. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 11.8 points, or 0.33 per cent ...

Gold will rally, bonds thrive: BlackRock

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Resources are set to underperform, gold prices rally and Australian bonds outperform their US counterparts - these are a few of BlackRock's top 10 market predictions for 2009. According to David Hudson, head of investment strategy and asset allocation ...

Japan's pensions turn to alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Japanese pension funds are rethinking their diversification strategy and planning to reduce their domestic equities allocation in favour of more alternative assets such as absolute return products, according to a new survey. A JPMorgan Asset Management ...

Super cushions local asset managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The country's compulsory super will keep the investment management arms of the major banks chugging along despite the current market crisis - unlike their European and US counterparts which are under the hammer, if not already sold, as their parent ...

This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Domestic financial market activity will remain cautious this week with sentiment precariously balanced between the weekend's positive US economic news and further NAB-like announcements on the fallout of the US subprime mess on its balance sheet. Top-tier ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... Bank of England kept interest rates on hold and Vodafone, which owns 45 per cent of Verizon Wireless, rose on its US counterpart's takeover bid for Alltel. The FTSE 100 added 25.2 points to 5,995.3. FRANKFURT - The DAX index gained 23.6 points to 6941.83 ...